Sao Carlos STIL 2009
September 8-11, 2009
São Carlos/SP, Brazil

Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo

TIL


The 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology
 

7th Brazilian Symposium in
Information and Human Language Technology (STIL 2009) - Main Track

7o Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana

 

September 8-10, 2009
 

Preface | Committees | Papers

 

Preface

 

STIL 2009 (formerly known as TIL - Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology) is the annual Language Technology event supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and by the Brazilian Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing. In 2009 it takes place at the University of São Paulo, campus São Carlos, Brazil. The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and industry participants that work on those areas.

 

The topics of interest advertised in the Call for Papers centered around work in human language technology in general from perspectives as diverse as Computer Science, Linguistics and Information science, such as text mining, written and spoken language processing, terminology, lexicology and lexicography and natural language generation. We received 60 full papers and 26 short papers from Argentina, Brazil, France, India, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay. Each paper was reviewed by three members of the Program Committee which had 88 members from 13 countries and 45 institutions. After a rigorous reviewing process 18 full and 12 short papers were selected, with acceptance rates of 30% and 42%, respectively. At the time of writing we are planning a special issue of the journal Linguamatica which will include a selection of extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at STIL  2009.

 

Besides the technical sessions with paper and poster presentations, STIL 2009 includes two invited talks and two tutorials in its program. The invited speakers are: Prof. Clarisse de Souza (PUC-Rio, Brazil) and Prof. Ted Briscoe  (University of Cambridge, UK). The tutorials will be given by Prof. Ted Briscoe  (University of Cambridge, UK), and Dr. Caroline Gasperin (USP/ICMC, Brazil).

 

We want to thank all the authors, members of the Program Committee, Invited Speakers, SBC staff, and the Local and General Chairs of STIL 2009. We hope you enjoy this volume.

 

Aline Villavicencio and Horacio Saggion
(STIL 2009 Program Committee Co-Chairs)

 

General Conference Chairs

 

Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo (USP/ICMC)
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (USP/ICMC)

 

Program Chairs

 

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)

 

Local Organizing Committee

 

Helena de Medeiros Caseli (UFSCar, Brazil)
Mário Machado (UFRGS, Brazil)

 

Program Committee
 

Alexandre Agustini (PUCRS, Brazil)
Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
Sandra M. Aluísio (USP/ICMC, Brazil)
Claudine Badue (UFES, Brazil)
Jason Baldridge (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Gladis Barcellos (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Vanessa Braganholo (UFRJ, Brazil)
António Branco (UL, Portugal)
Marisa Brascher (UNB, Brazil)
Márcia de Borba Campos (PUCRS, Brazil)
Ariadne Carvalho (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Helena de Medeiros Caseli (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Rove Chishman (UNISINOS, Brazil)
Javier Couto (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
Carlos Crestana (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Gustavo Crispino (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
Iria da Cunha (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Ariani Di Felippo (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Valéria D. Feltrim (UEM/Maringá, Brazil)
Eraldo Fernandes (Instituto Federal de Educação, Brazil)
Oscar Ferrandez (University of Alicante, Spain)
Sergio Ferrández (University of Alicante, Spain)
Maria José Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil)
Marcelo Finger (USP/IME, Brazil)
Maria Fuentes Fort (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Sérgio Freitas (UFES, Brazil)
Adam Funk (University of Sheffield, UK)
Michel Gagnon (Ecole Polytechnique , Canada)
Pablo Gamallo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Caroline Gasperin (USP/ICMC, Brazil)
Marcos Goldnadel (UFRGS, Brazil)
Claudine Gonçalves (UFES, Brazil)
Marco Gonzalez (PUCRS, Brazil)
Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain)
Louise Guthrie (University of Sheffield, UK)
David Guthrie (University of Sheffield, UK)
Celso Antônio Kaestner (UTFPR/PR, Brazil)
Tracy King (Microsoft, USA)
Aldebaro Klautau (UFPA, Brazil)
Valia Kordoni (DFKI, Germany)
Stanley Loh (UCPEL, Brazil)
Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil)
José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (UNL, Portugal)
Gabriel Infante López (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
Maria Luiza Machado Campos (UFRJ, Brazil)
Mário Machado (UFRGS, Brazil)
Nuno Marques (UNL, Portugal)
Palmira Marrafa (UL, Portugal)
David Martinez (NICTA, Australia)
Ronado Teixeira Martins (UNIVÁS, Brazil)
Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ruy Luiz Milidiú (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Jean-Luc Minel (Université de Paris X, France)
Silvia Maria Wanderley Moraes (PUCRS, Brazil)
Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Juan Manuel Torres Moreno (Université d'Avignon, France)
Eduardo Motta (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Daniel Nehme Muller (UFRGS, Brazil)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Viviane Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil)
Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Ivandré Paraboni (USP/EACH, Brazil)
Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo (USP/ICMC, Brazil)
Thierry Poibeau (CNRS-LIPN, France)
Carlos Augusto Prolo (PUCRS, Brazil)
Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Violeta Quental (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
António Ribeiro (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Lúcia Rino (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Vitor Rocio (UNL, Portugal)
Horacio Rodriguez (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
João Luís Garcia Rosa (USP/ICMC, Brazil)
Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)
Vanice Sargentini (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Karin Kipper Schuler (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Bento da Silva (UNESP, Brazil)
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (UNL, Portugal)
Thais Cristófaro Silva (UFMG, Brazil)
Alberto F. De Souza (UFES, Brazil)
Renato Rocha Souza (UFMG, Brazil)
Lucia Specia (Xerox, France)
Vera Lucia Strube de Lima (PUCRS, Brazil)
Stella Tagnin (USP/FFLCH, Brazil)
David Tomás (University of Alicante, Spain)
Diego Uribe (Instituto Tecnologico de la Laguna, Mexico)
Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil)
Leo Wanner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Leandro Wives (UFRGS, Brazil)
Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
Yi Zhang (DFKI, Germany)

 

Full Papers

 

Desafios para a Criação de um Léxico baseado em Frames para o Português: um estudo dos frames Judgement e Assessing
Anderson Bertoldi, Rove Luiza de Oliveira Chishman

 

Avaliação da extracção de relações semânticas entre palavras portuguesas a partir de um dicionário
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Diana Santos, Paulo Gomes

 

Extração de relações semânticas via análise de correlação de termos em documentos
Sergio William Botero, Ivan L. M. Ricarte

 

Identification of Multiword Expressions in Technical Domains: Investigating Statistical and Alignment-based Approaches
Aline Villavicencio, Helena de Medeiros Caseli, André Machado

 

Portuguese Temporal Expressions Recognition: from TE characterization to an effective TER module implementation
Caroline Hagège, Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede

 

Agrupar Textos Cifrados é Equivalente a Agrupar Textos Legíveis
William A. R. de Souza, Luís Alfredo Vidal de Carvalho, José Antonio Xexéo

 

Análise da Inteligibilidade de textos via ferramentas de Processamento de Língua Natural: adaptando as métricas do Coh-Metrix para o Português
Carolina Evaristo Scarton, Daniel Machado de Almeida, Sandra Maria Aluísio

 

Statistical Machine Translation: little changes big impacts
Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Israel Aono Nunes

 

Fusão Automática de Sentenças Similares em Português
Eloize Rossi Marques Seno, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

 

A Token Classification Approach to Dependency Parsing
Ruy L. Milidiú, Carlos E. M. Crestana, Cícero Nogueira dos Santos

 

Hacia la construcción automática de ontologías
Isidra Ocampo-Guzman, Ivan Lopez-Arevalo, Edgar Tello-Leal, Victor Sosa-Sosa

 

Semantic Inferentialist Analyser: Um Analisador Semântico de Sentenças em Linguagem Natural
Vladia Pinheiro, Tarcisio Pequeno, Vasco Furtado, Douglas Nogueira

 

Construção de uma Estrutura Ontológica de Domínio a partir da Wikipédia
Clarissa Castellã Xavier, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima

 

O Contexto no Reconhecimento de Entidades Nomeadas em Textos de Biomedicina
Rodrigo R. V. Goulart, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima

 

Clause Identification using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning
Eraldo R. Fernandes, Bernardo A. Pires, Cícero N. dos Santos, Ruy L. Milidiú

 

Classificação Automática de Textos por Período Literário Utilizando Compressão de Dados Através do PPM-C
Bruno Barufaldi, Eduardo F. Santana, José Rogério B. B. Filho, JanKees van der Poel, Milton Marques Júnior, Leonardo Vidal Batista

 

Content Selection Operators for Multidocument Summarization based on Cross-document Structure Theory
Maria Lucía Castro Jorge, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

 

Avaliação da Influência da Remoção de Stopwords na Abordagem Estatística de Extração Automática de Termos
Ígor Assis Braga

 

Short Papers

 

Lavinia: un Entorno para Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural
Cecilia Techera, Diego Garat, Guillermo Moncecchi

 

Estudando o português tal como é usado: o serviço AC/DC
Luís Fernando Costa, Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha

 

A Testbed for Portuguese Natural Language Generation
Eder Miranda de Novais, Rafael Lage de Oliveira, Daniel Bastos Pereira, Thiago Dias Tadeu, Ivandré Paraboni

 

Fine-tuning in Portuguese-English Statistical Machine Translation
Wilker F. Aziz, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Ivandré Paraboni

 

Sistematização linguístico-computacional do léxico do domínio conceitual "Indústria do Bordado de Ibitinga"
Erasmo Roberto Marcellino, Bento Carlos Dias da Silva

 

Recuperação de Informação Jurídica: Uma Avaliação do Raciocínio Baseado em Casos
Symball Rufino de Oliveira, Marisa Bräscher Basílio Medeiros

 

Avaliando o Desempenho de uma Rede Neural Probabilística Baseada em Centroídes
Patrick Marques Ciarelli, Elias Oliveira

 

SAHARA: an online service for HAREM Named Entity Recognition Evaluation
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Nuno Cardoso

 

Acervos multimídia de línguas indígenas: uma proposta de organização
Ellison Cleyton Barbosa dos Santos

 

Tecnologias para o Desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Diálogo Falado em Português Brasileiro
Jefferson Morais, Nelson Neto, Aldebaro Klautau

 

The C-ORAL-BRASIL corpus: methodological basis for the treatment of spontaneous speech
Maryualê M. Mittmann, Tommaso Raso, Heliana R. Mello

 

From Factorial to Quadratic Time Complexity for Sentence Realization using Nearest Neighbour Algorithm
Karthik Gali Sriram Venkatapathy Taraka Rama

 

Panel

 

Mapeamento da Comunidade Brasileira de Processamento de Línguas Naturais

Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

 

Preface | Committees | Papers